Data Analytics Engineer Contracts

Data Analytics Engineer
UK

The median Data Analytics Engineer daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 706 822
Rank change year-on-year +121 +116 -136
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analytics Engineer 6 12 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.020% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.021% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 12
10th Percentile £481 £474 £454
25th Percentile £509 £484 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £800
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -34.38% +14.29%
75th Percentile £663 £545 -
90th Percentile £685 £550 £845
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £545 £475
% change year-on-year -5.96% +14.74% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Data Analytics Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Analytics Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics Engineer in the UK

Data Analytics Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analytics Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics Engineer in the UK

Data Analytics Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics Engineer over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics Engineer in the UK

Data Analytics Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analytics Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +105 6 £600 +14.29% 3
London +100 4 £675 +29.19% 3
Work from Home +124 3 £675 +23.85% 1
UK excluding London +62 2 £513 -5.96%
Midlands +27 2 £513 -5.96%
East Midlands - 2 £513 -

Data Analytics Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Data Analytics Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Data Analytics Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) Data Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) ETL
3 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 4 (66.67%) Python
3 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
4 3 (50.00%) Big Data
4 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (33.33%) Oracle
5 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 2 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (33.33%) Ab Initio
5 2 (33.33%) Teradata
5 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
5 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
5 2 (33.33%) Looker
5 2 (33.33%) Snowflake
5 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
5 2 (33.33%) BigQuery
5 2 (33.33%) GCP
5 2 (33.33%) ETL Development
5 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Power BI
6 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
6 1 (16.67%) Data Science

Data Analytics Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) Snowflake
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (50.00%) Big Data
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (33.33%) BigQuery
3 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (33.33%) Looker
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) Data Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) ETL
3 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
4 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Data Integration
5 2 (33.33%) ETL Development
6 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
6 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 1 (16.67%) Data Science
6 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 1 (16.67%) DevOps
6 1 (16.67%) MapReduce
6 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
6 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
6 1 (16.67%) Statistics
6 1 (16.67%) User Experience
6 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Ab Initio
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) Teradata